I didn't see all of the opening ceremonies - just excerpts later. But the lighting of the Olympic flame was awesome! And Vladislav Tretiak! I remember him from the 1972 Canada - Russia series. (Canada won. )

They did some amazing things with projections. And I have never seen ballet in OCs nor heard so much orchestral music - Stravinsky, Borodin, Tchaikovsky!

Thanks, I'll refresh my cup! Gonna be making banana bread later - it is a week early for Uncle Mac Day, but the bananas are ready NOW and having the oven on seems like a fine idea on a cold February night. I'll be using pumpkin seeds (hulled) instead of nuts, if anyone wants some!

I am now officially avoiding new sites and radio stations that might give results before I have had a chance to watch the Olympics I DVR, although I did hear, before I could change the stain, about America's first Gold medal of the games before I saw the run, but that was okay, and fun to watch anyway!

It seems that they can't get a satisfactory package or schedule to show the events. I remember that cable offered a package where certain sports were shown on the certain channels all the way thru the games.

Now? I you don't have the NBCSports channel, you miss a large chunk of the premium sports.

I so wish we got to see all of the competitors in an event - there are enough channels on the TV, and stations have enough outlets, why can we not see, just for one example, all the women singles figure skaters who have been chosen, out of everyone in their country, to compete at the Olympics? I would love to see the skater form Poland, or Spain, or Turkmenistan - even if she is not up to the level of the "elite" skaters, she is still the very best skater in her whole country!

I am now officially avoiding new sites and radio stations that might give results before I have had a chance to watch the Olympics I DVR, although I did hear, before I could change the stain, about America's first Gold medal of the games before I saw the run, but that was okay, and fun to watch anyway!

For the London Olympics and Vancouver before that, the Chicago TV news stations would give a "spoiler alert". I wish they'd do that again. Karen, I agree with you about the coverage, too - we see a few figure skaters, then a few snowboarders, then some skiing, then back to skating. I wish they would show athletes from other nations (did you know Zimbabwe has a winter Olympic team - one skier).

I've been Boo'd... right off the stage!

Aaahh, I have been defrosted! Thank you, Bonny and Asiel!
Brrrr, I've been Frosted! Thank you, Asiel and Pomtzu!

"That's the power of kittens (and puppies too, of course): They can reduce us to quivering masses of Jell-O in about two seconds flat and make us like it. Good thing they don't have opposable thumbs or they'd surely have taken over the world by now." -- Paul Lukas